Sr. Real Property Agent

Employer: City of Seattle
Job Title: Sr. Real Property Agent
Job Type: Classified Civil Service, Regular, Full-Time
Job Number: 2019-01114
Division: Seattle Parks and Recreation Department
Location: Seattle
Opening Date: 06/26/2019
Closing Date: 07/09/2019
Salary: $43.40-$50.62

Job Description: Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is a national leader and innovator in the services and programs we provide to our residents who enjoy our public spaces such as parks, community centers, specialty gardens, and swimming pools. Our mission is providing welcoming and safe opportunities to play, learn, contemplate and build community and promote responsible stewardship of the land. We promote healthy people, a healthy environment and strong communities. We strive to deliver excellent customer service to each visitor and participant. SPR is also deeply committed to advancing the City of Seattle's Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) by working to end institutional and structural racism.

This position is in the Property and Acquisition section of the Parks Planning and Development Division. The position provides real estate support to all work units in Parks and Recreation and responds to requests or inquiries specifically related to applications for revocable use permits from the public, other City departments, other public jurisdictions, and private utilities concerning Parks real estate.

Job Duties: 

  • Prevents and eliminates encroachments and private non-park use of park lands;
  • Works extensively with private property owners who have encroachments onto park-owned property;
  • Works with the Department of Planning and Development reviewing and commenting on new development and construction that may impact park property
  • Works with land surveyors, engineers, landscape architects and other professionals in the course of identifying property boundaries,
  • Develops plans to remove private encroachments, and developing appropriate restoration plans;
  • Maintains a database showing all known encroachments; maintaining counts of all resolved encroachments;
  • Responds to inquiries; providing information to the public regarding real property policies and procedures, specifically as they relate to the non-park use of park property;
  • Defines conditions for the use of park property and monitors such use; issues revocable use permits; prepares a variety of letters and notice documents to be delivered to property owners as part of encroachment resolution process;
  • Prepares and maintains real property records and files;
  • Prepares contracts and other real estate documents such as agreements, deeds, city council legislation, cost estimates, reports, and other written materials;
  • Reads, writes, interprets and applies legal descriptions.

Experience/Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills: 

Required Qualifications:

  1. Three years of experience as a Real Property Agent or equivalent experience
  2. Associate's Degree in Real Estate, Real Property Management or related field (or a combination of two years of education/training/experience that provides an equivalent background to perform the work)
  3. Current valid Washington Driver's License or evidence of equivalent mobility

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience handling projects from start to finish, including creating, monitoring and adhering to project schedules and the ability to keep multiple projects advancing at the same time.
  • Two or more years of project management experience, including experience developing and maintaining project management scheduling and monitoring documents and being accountable for project progress.
  • Experience handling complicated and possibly contentious property issues professionally to accomplish desired outcomes.
  • Experience dealing with code-enforcement or other related work where legal or other types of formal notices are sent to outside parties and timeframes must be documented and followed or experience working with attorneys timely preparing files for potential litigation or other enforcement processes.
  • Two or more years of experience preparing contracts and other real property-related legal documents.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Experience working in a Windows-based environment using MS Word, Outlook, and Excel.
  • Excellent working relations with a diverse workforce and City residents.

How to Apply: Website http://www.seattle.gov/jobs

Supplemental Information:

SPR's Core Competencies are:

Accountability & Action: Holding yourself accountable for achieving goals, completing tasks, and delivering quality work. Demonstrating thoughtful initiative in actions and decision-making, and promoting high-quality standards.

Equity and Inclusion: Supporting the goals of the Race and Social Justice Initiative and the City's commitment to workforce equity.

Communication: Sharing and exchanging information and ideas with people in a variety of ways to help them understand and remember the information.

Service: An ongoing commitment to base decisions and actions on the needs and priorities of the City.

Teamwork: Participating as an engaged member of a team to achieve group goals. Effectively working with internal and external people to complete tasks and achieve work group goals.